Springfield Astronomical Society

We had a "pop up" star party at Dan Kinney park in Springfield Saturday night (5/16/2026). We had 5 scopes set up, and were able to show the public Venus, Jupiter, M44, and other objects. For a "pop up" event without much promotion ahead of time we had quite a few people show up to look through our scopes. Unfortunately, I only got one picture of a part of our set up.

From the Astronomical League!

We held the year's last of our beginning astronomy series of classes in support of the Library Telescope Program on Monday Dec. 1, 2025. The subject was Binocular Astronomy presented by Kurt Clement. It was a cold snowy evening and that probably affected attendance, but it was a great class, the attendees seemed quite interested, and asked good questions. We had a wide array of types and sizes of binoculars on display, and a couple of mounts as well.

Be sure to keep an eye out for our astronomy classes next year!